City - Tampa FL - Franklin Street 1905 Youth T-Shirt

Colorized photo from 1905
Original Title: Franklin St
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 451 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL

This is Franklin St, it has a record number of firsts. It was the first street to get lined with electric lights, that was in 1887. It was the first street in the city to get paved. Tampa's firs street car was a steam powered contraption that pulled passenger cars like a train, and it ran down this street first. However by 1900, electric streetcars are all you saw. They laid 21 miles of track, connecting downtown to Ybor, West Tampa, Sulphur Springs and Ballast Point.

The street has changed considerably over they years, many of these buildings don't exist today. The cross street is Kennedy Blvd (or otherwise known as Lafayette, in those days). On the right you can see the edge of Lykes gaslight park.

This is how the street used to look, today its full of tall buildings and parking garages, but that park is still there.

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